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“Having baptized Jesus in the Jordan River, John the Baptist bore witness to Jesus the very next day, shouting out loud, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!”(John 1:29) Jesus received the sins of the world and 3 years after this He died on the Cross paying the full price for these sins. Sin is weightless. It does not have color, smell or shape, and it does not make any sounds. Because one cannot perceive it through the senses (our sight, smell, taste, hearing and touch), we cannot feel it. Therefore, do not try to verify through your senses or emotions that your sins have disappeared. Our emotions change all the time. However, because of the Word of God, the Truth of Jesus having blotted out the sin of the world will not change for all eternity.”
― Paul C. Jong, The Relationship Between the Ministry of JESUS and That of JOHN the BAPTIST Recorded in the Four Gospels

“As someone special who was born from the house of Aaron the High Priest by the providence of God, John”
― Paul C. Jong, The Relationship Between the Ministry of JESUS and That of JOHN the BAPTIST Recorded in the Four Gospels

“The order of High Priests who were the descendants of Aaron offered the sacrificial rite as shown to us in the Old Testament, and the order of the priest ‘Abijah’ comes up as the eighth division.”
― Paul C. Jong, The Relationship Between the Ministry of JESUS and That of JOHN the BAPTIST Recorded in the Four Gospels

“Firstly let me briefly explain the basic physical layout of the Old Testament’s Tabernacle.”
― Paul C. Jong, The Relationship Between the Ministry of JESUS and That of JOHN the BAPTIST Recorded in the Four Gospels

“and thereby thoroughly understand the whole truth of the remission of sin of the true atonement.”
― Paul C. Jong, The Relationship Between the Ministry of JESUS and That of JOHN the BAPTIST Recorded in the Four Gospels

“Yes, this is true. Jesus has saved us by taking-on your sins as well as mine through His baptism He had received from John the Baptist, dying on the Cross and paying the full price for them, and then being resurrected from the dead.”
― Paul C. Jong, The Relationship Between the Ministry of JESUS and That of JOHN the BAPTIST Recorded in the Four Gospels

“If we look at Matthew 11:11, Jesus bears witness to John the Baptist by saying, “Among those born of women there has not risen one greater.” John the Baptist passed-on the sins of the world ‘once and for all’ by baptizing Jesus in accordance with the eternal statute set by God as the High Priest of all of mankind, just like Aaron the High Priest (Matthew 3:15). John the Baptist had the qualifications to be the High Priest of all of humankind. That was why it was possible for John the Baptist, as the last High Priest of the Old Testament, to pass-on the sins of all of humankind by baptizing Jesus.”
― Paul C. Jong, The Relationship Between the Ministry of JESUS and That of JOHN the BAPTIST Recorded in the Four Gospels

“Just as the High Priest performed the laying on of the hands on the head of a scapegoat to transfer all the yearly sins of the Israelites, as so vividly depicted in the Old Testament, likewise, John the Baptist passed-on the sins of this world onto Jesus by baptizing Him.”
― Paul C. Jong, The Relationship Between the Ministry of JESUS and That of JOHN the BAPTIST Recorded in the Four Gospels

“We know that in the Old Testament times God chose Aaron to be the High Priest of Israel for 40 years. We also need to know that God had forever entrusted this High Priesthood to all of his descendants, and therefore there should be no lacking of belief that John the Baptist is indeed the representative of all of humankind, and as the priest who has passed all the sins of humankind onto Jesus.”
― Paul C. Jong, The Relationship Between the Ministry of JESUS and That of JOHN the BAPTIST Recorded in the Four Gospels

“Therefore, the phrase, “For thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness,” means that “it is fitting that I take-on all the sins of mankind, in the most fitting way or method, you performing baptism on Me and I received the baptism from you all.”
― Paul C. Jong, The Relationship Between the Ministry of JESUS and That of JOHN the BAPTIST Recorded in the Four Gospels

“Because the saints who remain in God’s Church would receive the nourishment of faith even in times of the Tribulation, they will overcome the Antichrist and triumph by embracing their martyrdom with their faith in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. God explains this fact to us through the metaphor of the woman in chapter 12. Revelation”
― Paul C. Jong, Commentaries and Sermons on the Book of Revelation - Is the Age of the Antichrist, Martyrdom, Rapture and the Millennial Kingdom Coming?

“am sure that you now believe in the Word of Truth where John the Baptist bore witness by saying, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!”(John 1:29) Jesus bore witness for 3 years by saying, “I am the way, the truth, and the life”(John 14:6), and bore witness to the fact that the atonement for the sins of all of mankind was the baptism Jesus received and His blood. He told those of us who believe to live a life as His disciple, spreading the gospel of Jesus’ baptism and blood.”
― Paul C. Jong, The Relationship Between the Ministry of JESUS and That of JOHN the BAPTIST Recorded in the Four Gospels

“We need to understand how the Apostle Peter believed and explained the baptism of Jesus? In 1 Peter 3:21 he said, “There is also an antitype which now saves us-baptism (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.” The Apostle Peter is telling us the baptism Jesus received from John the Baptist is an antitype of the salvation of how He atoned for our sins.”
― Paul C. Jong, The Relationship Between the Ministry of JESUS and That of JOHN the BAPTIST Recorded in the Four Gospels

“Through the last High Priest called John the Baptist, who was the representative of all humankind, Jesus took-on all the sins of all people.”
― Paul C. Jong, The Relationship Between the Ministry of JESUS and That of JOHN the BAPTIST Recorded in the Four Gospels

“The Lamb mentioned here is in expression of Jesus as the lamb who, as our substitute, became the”
― Paul C. Jong, The Relationship Between the Ministry of JESUS and That of JOHN the BAPTIST Recorded in the Four Gospels

“If you were to resist this incredible blessing, it would be like refusing all the plans of God in its entirety, and you would have by doing this become a wicked child, stubbornly refusing the Truth with your own mind.”
― Paul C. Jong, The Relationship Between the Ministry of JESUS and That of JOHN the BAPTIST Recorded in the Four Gospels

“An angel appeared before Mary and told her the same, “Blessed be the one who have”
― Paul C. Jong, The Relationship Between the Ministry of JESUS and That of JOHN the BAPTIST Recorded in the Four Gospels

“When Jesus walked toward John the Baptist the day after He was baptized, John the Baptist bore witness by saying to the people, “Please take a look at Him. He is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. You people, take a look at Him! He is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.” Because he had passed-on all the sins of humanity onto Jesus by the baptism, he was able to bear witness personally to the fact that Jesus was the Savior.”
― Paul C. Jong, The Relationship Between the Ministry of JESUS and That of JOHN the BAPTIST Recorded in the Four Gospels

“Because of John the Baptist witness and those who are faithful, it becomes possible for humankind to believe that the baptism Jesus received was the baptism of taking-on the sins of all humanity; and because of this, Jesus had to shed His precious blood on the Cross.”
― Paul C. Jong, The Relationship Between the Ministry of JESUS and That of JOHN the BAPTIST Recorded in the Four Gospels

“When Jesus Christ started His public ministry, the very first work accomplished by Him was the work of taking-on all our sins by receiving baptism in the Jordan River.”
― Paul C. Jong, The Relationship Between the Ministry of JESUS and That of JOHN the BAPTIST Recorded in the Four Gospels

“As the representative of all mankind - John the Baptist was the one who passed the sins of the world onto Jesus by baptizing Him.”
― Paul C. Jong, The Relationship Between the Ministry of JESUS and That of JOHN the BAPTIST Recorded in the Four Gospels

“Because in A.D. 30, Jesus took-on the sins of the world completely by receiving baptism from John the Baptist, John the Baptist pointed out Jesus the next day and said,”
― Paul C. Jong, The Relationship Between the Ministry of JESUS and That of JOHN the BAPTIST Recorded in the Four Gospels

“In other words, through this baptism, John the Baptist passed all the sins of this world onto the body of Jesus Christ who is the Lamb of God.”
― Paul C. Jong, The Relationship Between the Ministry of JESUS and That of JOHN the BAPTIST Recorded in the Four Gospels

“The ministry of John the Baptist where he passed-on all the sins of the people of this world onto Jesus was truly a righteous act. This is the gospel of the atonement for sins, the righteousness of God, and the way toward salvation John witnessed. In order for us to receive salvation, we must realize and believe in our hearts both Jesus’ baptism and His shed blood, and His resurrection, which makes up the gospel of the atonement for sins.”
― Paul C. Jong, The Relationship Between the Ministry of JESUS and That of JOHN the BAPTIST Recorded in the Four Gospels

“My fellow believers, before God, only those who know they are extremely deficient in their deeds can receive the remission of their sins by believing in the power of the Lord’s gospel. Do you think that it is by practicing asceticism, as if we were Buddha, that we can be remitted from our sins? It is those who know themselves as the piles of sins that can be remitted from all their sins by believing in the gospel of power, that Jesus came to this earth and has blotted out their sins with the water and the blood.”
― Paul C Jong, Sermons on the Gospel of Matthew (II) - WHAT DID WE BELIEVE TO RECEIVE THE REMISSION OF SINS?

“These Words of Jesus speaks the Truth that God put John the Baptist here as the representative of all of humankind, and also had him baptize Jesus. As Jesus was bearing witness of John the Baptist He said, “Why did you go out into the wilderness?”
― Paul C. Jong, The Relationship Between the Ministry of JESUS and That of JOHN the BAPTIST Recorded in the Four Gospels

“In the Old Testament, the sacrificial animal received the passing-on of the sins of people by receiving the laying of both hands (Leviticus 16:21).”
― Paul C. Jong, The Relationship Between the Ministry of JESUS and That of JOHN the BAPTIST Recorded in the Four Gospels

“Because God always used a representative priest to pass-on the sins of people onto a sacrificial lamb, He had to send John the Baptist. Therefore,”
― Paul C. Jong, The Relationship Between the Ministry of JESUS and That of JOHN the BAPTIST Recorded in the Four Gospels

“At that time, John the Baptist was baptizing the Israelites for the repentance of sins and through this made them return to God.”
― Paul C. Jong, The Relationship Between the Ministry of JESUS and That of JOHN the BAPTIST Recorded in the Four Gospels

“Because they had never seen a bright light since the day they were born in this world, they couldn’t understand what it meant when they were told, “God said, ‘Let there be light,’” and they couldn’t help but think of another meaning of the word light, as in light weight, since the same word had different meanings, and only one of them was comprehensible to them. For all human beings, our knowledge is limited by our senses, to the extent that we experience, feel, and sense with our bodies. So when the visually disabled people are asked about what light is, they are predisposed to think of the word’s meaning in terms of weight. If you and I are in their shoes, we would think the same.”
― Paul C. Jong, Sermons on Galatians - From Physical Circumcision to the Doctrine of Repentance